A07-00-0022 Citibank—The Confia Acquisition in Mexico (A) This document has been made available for CasePlace.org. Introduction In August of 1998 Citibank-Mexico President Julio de Quesada was sitting in his office on the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City reminiscing about the wild ride that his organization had taken during the previous four years. From the depths of the “Tequila Crisis‚” when Mexico’s peso devalued by more than 100% at the end of 1994 to the final payment of $US 180 million
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wine quality data set that is the white vinho verde wine samples from the north of Portugalthe from UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository. This white wine data set includes 4898 observations and 12 variables‚ among which quality is the dependent variable‚ and other 11 attributes- fixed acidity‚ volatile acidity‚ citric acid‚ residual sugar‚ chlorides‚ free sulfur dioxide‚ total sulfur dioxide‚ density‚ pH‚ sulphates‚ and alcohol-are independent variables. Technical summary 1. Data pre-process The
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Citibank eBusiness for Global Corp Banking Setting the stage : Referring to Citibank’s case‚ analyse: 1. 2. 3. Standard Value Chain (primary & secondary) Software applications responsible for step 1 Citibank’s 3-stage e-Business strategy Using Value Chain for a manufacturing company to show how Citi’s products and services assist each part of the manufacturing company’s value chain activity‚ both primary & secondary. Primary Activities Secondary/ Support Activities Goal
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underlying attribute values of objects subjected to clustering analysis. In doing so‚ the privacy of individuals’ data would be protected. In this age of data mining‚ we felt that working on data privacy was of paramount importance. We worked in a group of 3 on this and my role specifically was to design and implement the ‘K-means’ algorithm that clusters the data and forms the basis for the data transformation. In addition to my thesis‚ I worked on a solo project which involved developing an inventory
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Web usage mining[edit] Web usage mining is the process of extracting useful information from server logs e.g. use Web usage mining is the process of finding out what users are looking for on the Internet. Some users might be looking at only textual data‚ whereas some others might be interested in multimedia data. Web Usage Mining is the application of data mining techniques to discover interesting usage patterns from Web data in order to understand and better serve the needs of Web-based applications
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AGH Journal of Mining and Geoengineering • vol. 36 • No. 3 • 2012 Maria Rosienkiewicz* IDEA OF ADAPTATION VALUE STREAM MAPPING METHOD TO THE CONDITIONS OF THE MINING INDUSTRY 1. Value Stream Mapping method The Value Stream Mapping (VSM) method is one of the tools of the lean manufacturing methodology. It originates in the Toyota Production System (TPS). In Toyota this method was called “Material and Information Flow Mapping”. This technique enables analyzing and designing the flow of
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Project Topic 1: What is the Impact of Mining on South Africa and its people? GOLD Authors: Michelle Dandara‚ Kirsten Collins‚ Robyn Blench‚ Yumna Badrooien and Sonia Mataramvura Date of Completion: 17 February 2012 Teacher: Mr Altern Abstract Mining plays a very important role in South Africa: it is one of the driving forces behind South Africa’s booming economy and provides employment for millions of South Africans. South Africa boasts world-scale primary mining processing facilities and is a world
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P D Y Chapter 3 1 0 2 SURFACE MINING METHODS REFERENCE: BULLIVANT‚ DA. Current Surface Mining Techniques. Journal for the Transportation of Materials in Bulk: Bulk Solids Handling‚ vol 7‚ n6‚ December 1987‚ pp827-833. 2.1 Ore reserves Suitable for Surface Mining Ore reserves suitable for surface mining can be classified initially as; Relatively horizontal stratified reserves with a thin or thick covering of overburden Stratified vein-type deposits with an inclination steeper
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to explain how the mining industry faces an uncertain future in some parts of the world due to various political changes. Increase and unpredictable government intervention across the globe is adding further complexity to a sector that is already heavily laden with risk (Grant Thornton‚ 2011). Introduction Minerals constitute the back-bone of economic growth for any nation and the entire world has been eminently endowed with this gift of nature. Primary activity of the mining industry is to extract
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SOLUTION MINING A Laboratory Exercise in Extracting Copper from a Synthetic Copper Ore Your Name __Mel Hine______________________ Partner’s Name __Jay Ranson____________________ Date _October 2‚ 2012____________ Introduction This laboratory exercise involves the use of dilute sulfuric acid (H2SO4) to leach copper
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